Jahza

Jahza al-Barmaki, whose full name is Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Ja'far ibn Musa ibn Yahya ibn Khalid ibn Barmak. He was a poet and a singer. Ibn al-Nadim describes him as skilled in the craft of singing to the tanbur and of good manners. He adds that his reports are too well known to be recounted, because his time was recent. ²

In the report transmitted, he died in Wasit in 326 AH. He had gone out to Abu Bakr ibn Wathiq, and an ailment of the bowels afflicted him. He wrote books on cookery, on the tanbur players and on judgements. ²

Note: the English title of the page in the data puts his death in 324, while the Arabic text gives 326. The difference needs review.